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• Re: Front bulb type for signal/parking, '91 GL
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:09:40 -0400
  ...Generally speaking any double-contact bayonet-base bulb with 32/3 cp should suffice for the front, any single-contact bayonet-base 32 cp...
• Re: repost optional bulb sizes/wattages?
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Wed, 6 Feb 2008 05:58:13 -0800
  I saved this information that Mike S posted last year: --- Rear BU/Stop/Turn BA15s - Single Contact Candelabra Bayonet Stock P21W 21W 32 cp...
• Re: Back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:01 -0400
  ...Rear BU/Stop/Turn BA15s - Single Contact Candelabra Bayonet Stock P21W 21W 32 cp US 1073 23W 32 cp 200 hours US 1156 27W...
• Re: repost optional bulb sizes/wattages?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:40:51 -0800
  ...posted last year: > > --- > Rear BU/Stop/Turn BA15s - Single Contact Candelabra Bayonet Stock P21W 21W > 32 cp > US 1073 23W 32 cp 200 hours...
• Re: Back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Lee Peterson
  Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:12:59 -0700
  ...tail-brake-turn.html scroll down to the 5w bayonett *5 Watt **15mm Bayonet Based LED Bulbs* *These are by far the brightest LED...
• 6 volt bulbs.
  Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
  Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:41:07 CST6CDT
  ...It can be plugged into a standard single contact bayonet base socket. But the 'lamp' is actually an LED or cluster thereof. (We are...
• Re: Gas tank install driving me nuts!!
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:16:09 -0400
  ...to come out.It is twisted about 5 degrees till the bayonet slots match up.Then it comes right out.If you get frustrated...
• Re: how to replace tachometer light?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:02:16 -0400
  ...direction I should turn? If I remember right, it's a bayonet type mount. You twist it 90 degrees either direction and it pops...
• Re: Coolant leak update
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:26:11 -0500
  I believe the pressure tester you have borrowed from auto zone wont work.The standard connector provided is a bayonet mount. You need a...
• Re: Westy Shower Solution --- now on Sale
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:02 -0400
  ...If you are at the Housatonic Meadows State Park in CT they will probably slash your porta shower to shreds with a bayonet then...
• Headlamp adjusters
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:51:08 -0700
  ...It wont twist like a bayonet. I don't want to risk breaking it as they cost $10 each. It looks like three tiny...
• License Plate Bulb ('85 GL)
  Historical mailing list - Jack
  Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:15:14 -0800
  ...Hours Volts: 13 Volts Bulb Shape: G-6 Beam Spread Base: Bayonet Single Contact Class and Filament: C-2R Diameter (in): 3/4 Length...
• Re: AC issues
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:44:39 -0400
  ...Just screw one part on the access port and then use the "bayonet" fitting to stick the hose into the fitting. Screwing on the...
• Re: Question about Vanagon external lighting
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:44:27 -0500
  ...Taillight bulb is a G6 lamp with single contact bayonet bases, #89 or 98 should be good. Yrs, d On Thu, Jan 12, 2017...
• Re: Coolant leak update
  Historical mailing list - Michael Amato
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:45:47 -0500
  ...Coolant leak update I believe the pressure tester you have borrowed from auto zone wont work.The standard connector provided is a bayonet mount...
• Re: Question about Vanagon external lighting
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:45:33 +0000
  ...Taillight bulb is a G6 > lamp with single contact bayonet bases, #89 or 98 should be good. > > Yrs, > d > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017...
• Re: Westy Shower Solution --- now on Sale
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:21:24 -0400
  ...the Housatonic Meadows State Park in CT they will probably :::slash your porta shower to shreds with a bayonet then arrest your family. ::::) ::::) ::: :::Bryan
• JCW oil cooler
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:57:30 -0400
  ...As it turns out the aluminum cooler and the brass bayonet fittings really weren't compatible or possibly required more delicacy in the fitting...
• Re: AC issues
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:58:15 -0500
  ...Just screw one part on the access port and then >use the "bayonet" fitting to stick the hose into the fitting. Screwing on >the...
• Late Vanagon Speedometer needed
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:23:04 -0400
  ...My van is an 87, with the bayonet-type speedo cable. It's currently reading in miles, but I wouldn't mind switching to...
• Re: tiny little bulb issue
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:14:23 -0500
  ...I don't have the part number, but the bulb, which is in a plastic base, bayonets out of the white thing. The white...
• Re: how to replace tachometer light?
  Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
  Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:33:34 -0700
  ...direction I > should turn? > > If I remember right, it's a bayonet type mount. You > twist it 90 degrees > either direction and it pops...
• Re: Late Vanagon Speedometer needed
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:41:25 -0400
  ...just the speedo section. > > My van is an 87, with the bayonet-type speedo cable. It's currently > reading in miles, but I wouldn...
• Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: 2000 DARWIN AWARDS]]
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:23:28 -0500
  ...The poor kid was wearing a kevlar vest, and his buddy apparently did a bayonet attack. It went right through. My volunteer fire department...
• Re: Headlamp adjusters
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:55:08 -0700
  ...It wont twist like a bayonet. I don't want to risk breaking it as they cost $10 each. It looks like three tiny...
• Re: tiny little bulb issue
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:17:48 -0600
  ...The have a bayonet base and just twist out. I used a pair of parallel jaw pliers to hold them. The white thingy stays...
• brighter tail lights - again
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 30 May 2005 09:09:29 -0700
  ...These are German made bulbs that fit into the bayonet mount socket. While an improvement over the stock back-up lamps, they still don...
• Re: Blinker weirdness
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:49:57 -0500
  ...All single-filament, single-contact bayonet-base lamps. In both cases I've given the number for the "heavy duty" lamp first. It sounds...
• Attn: Instrumentation Nuts
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:34:33 -0500
  ...Each one is about 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 5 (inches) and has twelve miniature bayonet pilot lamps at the back...
• Re: '91 GL -- no brake lights, no license plate lights, but have tail lights, directional signals, and back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:42:33 +0000
  ...Small bayonet for the license plate. All turn signals common fuse, brake lights fused I think with the horn, taillights fused right-left side...
• FI and head temp sensor
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:11:30 -0700
  ...It is a stubby bayonet sensor that fits the sensor hole on a stock head (I'm assuming for a Type 3 engine). In...
• Re: Westy Shower Solution --- now on Sale
  Historical mailing list - vt
  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:18:43 -0500
  ...the Housatonic Meadows State Park in CT they will > probably > :::slash your porta shower to shreds with a bayonet then arrest your > family. > ::::) > ::::) > ::: > :::Bryan
• "Kitchen" Light Bulb for '81 Westy
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:12:51 -0700
  ...The glass bulb seemed pretty heavy and it wasn't a screw-in or a bayonet mount; it's connector consisted of two rather...
• Re: Halogen Back-up bulb
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:12:39 -0400
  ...basically a single contact on bottom, bayonet mount, 2 pins at 180 degree's to each other on the sides, ..... NOW the mount, between...
• CB Disappointment
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:57:11 -0700
  ...antenna base and mast come of with a 1/4 turn bayonet mount. (Easy to jump out and pop it off to get under...
• Re: brighter tail lights - again
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Mon, 30 May 2005 17:56:11 -0700
  ...These are German made > bulbs that fit into the bayonet mount socket. > > While an improvement over the stock back-up lamps, they still don...
• Re: Coolant leak update
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:47:15 -0500
  ...Coolant leak update > >I believe the pressure tester you have borrowed from auto zone wont >work.The standard connector provided is a bayonet mount...
• Re: No brake lights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:07:04 -0500
  ...much left with bad bulbs or bad contact, probably between the bayonet pins on the bulb shell and the steel socket. The fact of...
• Re: clock light
  Historical mailing list - John H. Rodgers
  Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:22:27 -0500
  ...sort of like the bulbs in turn signals, with those little "bayonet" bottoms. THEN you get to put it alllll back together again. :) ain...
• Re: CB Antenna purchasing advice
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:41:01 -0800
  ...removed from the mount in about 2 seconds. (It uses a "bayonet" mount like older SLR camera lenses). my $0.02 worth... Brent Christensen...
• Re: Cloudy headlight glass?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:22:38 -0500
  ...Have you ever taken a good look at the bayonet type tail lamps you get at the parts store ............. no quality control, just crap...
• Re: Bulbs, bulbs, and d&*m bulbs
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:41:24 -0500
  ...I think a 5 to 7 watt LED would be there, and Cree makes some tantalizing offerings in 1156 bayonet mount. Make sure you...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:21:28 -0400
  ...Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, slight press in and quarter-turn to the left to remove...
• Re: CB Disappointment
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:28:37 -0400
  ...antenna base and mast come of with a 1/4 turn bayonet mount. (Easy to jump >out and pop it off to get under...
• Re: '91 GL -- no brake lights, no license plate lights, but have tail lights, directional signals, and back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Tue, 24 Sep 2019 01:10:09 +0000
  ...Small bayonet for the license plate. All turn signals common fuse, brake lights fused I think with the horn, taillights fused right-left side...
• Re: brighter tail lights - again
  Historical mailing list - Matthew C. Huntley
  Tue, 31 May 2005 14:40:04 -0700
  ...These are German made >> bulbs that fit into the bayonet mount socket. >> >> While an improvement over the stock back-up lamps, they still don...
• 81 brake squeal
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:33:23 -0400
  ...Turns out the threads for the brass bayonet fitting and the aluminun cooler actually aren't a proper fit and the thing spewed oil...
• Re: '91 GL -- no brake lights, no license plate lights, but have tail lights, directional signals, and back-up lights
  Historical mailing list - John H. Lauterbach
  Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:34:42 -0400
  ...Small bayonet > for the license plate. All turn signals common fuse, brake lights fused I > think with the horn, taillights fused right-left side...
• Re: Wipers STILL don't work!! Arrgh!!
  Historical mailing list - Joe T.
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:17:11 -0600
  ...Also have the bayonet types that lock >> like two hands clasping - for connecting ends of two wires. Love those >> also. Put a little shrink...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted
  Historical mailing list - Scott Ohana
  Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:43:27 -0700
  ...out. > > Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, > slight press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 21:44:11 -0400
  ...out. >> >> Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, >> slight press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Antennas Re: CB Disappointment
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:53:48 -0400
  ...antenna base and mast come of with a 1/4 turn bayonet mount. (Easy to jump > >out and pop it off to get under...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted-replacement option.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:58:07 -0400
  ...out. > > Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, slight > press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Re: JCW oil cooler
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Jul 1996 00:17:13 -0400
  ...Interestingly, they spec smaller brass bayonet fittings than JCW provided in their install kit which I think was the root of the leak probem...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted-replacement option.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:35:14 -0700
  ...out. > > Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, slight > press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted-replacement option.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:35:47 -0400
  ...out. > > Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, slight > press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Re: [WetWesties] Who waves at whom ? ?
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:38:02 -0400
  ...Vanagons and Bays wave to one another without worrying who goes first but vanagonauts suffer from a certain smugness knowing that the Bayonets ;-) are...
• Re: Marker light tip wanted-replacement option.
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:57:09 -0700
  ...out. >> >> Once the plate is out, the bulb is a regular bayonet-base lamp, slight >> press in and quarter-turn to the left to...
• Re: Wipers STILL don't work!! Arrgh!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:53:00 -0500
  ...Also have the bayonet types that lock like two hands clasping - for connecting ends of two wires. Love those also. Put a little shrink...
• Re: Wipers STILL don't work!! Arrgh!!
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 02:20:39 -0700
  ...Also have the bayonet types that lock >like two hands clasping - for connecting ends of two wires. Love those >also. Put a little shrink...